Monday, July 6, 2015

Casting News - 'The Good Wife' Adds Jeffrey Dean Morgan; Jeremy Sisto & Evan Ross Join 'Wicked City'; Plus 5 More Updates!

Casting News - July 6, 2015

ABC's Blood and Oil, Of Kings and Prophets & Wicked City; CBS' The Good Wife; FOX's Empire; HBO's Getting On; and Showtime's Masters of Sex.





CBS' THE GOOD WIFE
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Magic City, Extant) has been cast as a series regular on the drama's upcoming seventh season. He will play Alex, a experienced hourly investigator whom Alicia (Julianna Margulies) hires to work at her new firm. Additionally, Makenzie Vega - who plays Alicia's daughter, Grace - is being downgraded to the recurring cast for the upcoming season.
ABC's OF KINGS AND PROPHETS
  • The midseason drama series is shooting an entirely new pilot with a retooled script penned by Chris Brancato, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage and to be directed by Michael Offer - who replaces original pilot helmer Jeffrey Nachmanoff.
ABC's WICKED CITY
  • Jeremy Sisto (The Returned) and Evan Ross (The Hunger Games) have been cast as series regulars on the upcoming anthology series. They are set to replace original stars Adam Rothenberg and Darrell Brit-Gibson - who departed the drama after the series pickup. Sisto will play Detective Jack Roth, the detective assigned to investigate the murder of Jenna Fuentes as he was the one who solved the L.A. Hillside Strangler mystery. Ross will play Diver Hawkes, the owner of a small L.A. paparazzi company that specializes in photographing gruesome murder scenes.
SHOWTIME's MASTERS OF SEX
  • The Walking Dead alum Emily Kinney has booked a recurring role on the drama's upcoming third season. She will play Nora, Bill (Michael Sheen) and Libby Masters' (Caitlin Fitzgerald) neighbor. Now in her 20s, poised and brimming with intelligence, Nora volunteers to become a sex surrogate in the next phase of Masters and Johnson's (Lizzy Caplan) research.
HBO's GETTING ON
  • Jonathan Silverman (Weekend at Bernie's) has landed a major recurring role on the comedy's upcoming third and final season. He will appear in all six episodes as Dr. Happy Gladden, a nephrologist.
FOX's EMPIRE
  • Singer-actress Kelly Rowland will appear in an upcoming episode of the hit drama's second season. She will play Lucious Lyon's (Terrence Howard) mother in an upcoming flashback to his rough childhood.
ABC's BLOOD AND OIL
  • Adan Canto (Mixology, The Following) has joined the cast of the upcoming drama series as a series regular. He will play AJ Menendez, a geologist who has been hired to advise Hap Briggs (Don Johnson) on the Bakken Oil play. He'll also help Hap around the ranch and eventually develops a romantic relationship with his daughter.